The Great Silk Route, or Silk Road, was the fabled overland supply chain that famously allowed the supply of Chinese goods to reach ancient Rome from the second century BCE.

Among the many goods that found their way from East to West and vice versa were glass, wine, spices, metals like iron, precious stones as well as textile raw materials and fabrics and silk, a luxury ...

Belt and Road: The Silk Road — A Living History celebrates the diversity of cultural expression found along the route, highlighting how historical practices, rituals and customs live on today.

The Silk Road was not just a single route, but a vast network of trade paths that connected Asia, Europe, and Africa for centuries. In this video, we unravel how the Silk Road actually worked ...

Tests on a nearly-complete cat skeleton – a rare find – discovered on the Silk Road in southern Kazakhstan revealed that cats may have been pets for nomadic herders in the area.